About Me

I want to start by saying that I never blogged and only read sports blogs so this is mostly new to me, but I guess I'll start out by talking a bit about myself.

My name is Fedor Gaponenko, I'm 19 years young and this is going to be my second year at Eastern. Something interesting about me is that I'm a Russian speaking Ukrainian who moved to America when I was six years old. I've been in a wheelchair most of my life and am diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy.

In my free time I love to watch sports I play some guitar (suck bad enough that I can't perform but play good enough that I can't sell and give up) One of my hobbies is video games although I rarely finish them, so I prefer multiplayer kind like NBA 2k11 or Madden or Call of Duty basically anything that gives me the right to talk a lot of smack when I win. I also enjoy hanging out and making people laugh with my stupid jokes. Overall I'd say I'm super easy going and get along with almost anyone except annoying people.

I'm one of those people who wanted to be just about everything when I grow up. In elementary I wanted to be a hustler so I practiced with pokemon cards and marbles, in middle school I thought I wanted to be a lawyer until I realized its not that sexy of a job as your mostly reading and studying cases at home and in your office instead of defending criminals in court, later I thought I wanted to be an engineer but that didn't last either. (excuse the Comma Splices I can't help it)

In my junior year in Moses Lake High School I did running start at Big Bend Community College. I graduated two years later with both a diploma and an AA degree. After taking a speech class and doing a stand up comedy as one of my speeches I thought I wanted to be a stand up comedian then I noticed my wheelchair. At this point I thought I was gonna be an English teacher (don't ask me why) By the time summer past and I got to Eastern I changed my mind about being a teacher and decided to that I like writing not teaching to write. My options were simple I can be a creative writer (which is my preference) or a journalist (which is where you can actually get a real career) so I did a double major for one year Journalism and Creative Writing. Pretty quickly I realized a creative writing degree is not going to make me a more successful creative writer is and my career future is in Journalism so I put my focus on one major. For now I'm pretty certain that I'm sticking with it. I do still hope to write either a novel or a collection of short stories and poems (novel takes to much commitment and like I said I can't finish a video game so who am I kidding.)

I mentioned earlier I love sports (mostly just football and basketball and some soccer) my favorite teams are the Oklahoma City Thunder (I pray they come back to Seattle, but its not gonna happen) I also love the Seahawks and Sounders. NBA has been my obsession the last couple of years and I will talk major shit to all my friends who doubted KD and the Thunder when they start winning championships left and right while Lebron chokes over and over.

Anyway I'm getting bored of writing this I'm sure I didn't mention a lot of things about me. That'd be sad if I said everything there is :(

I'm going to be at hoopfest this coming up weekend everyone should come I heard Nate Robinson is going to be there!